ART & VISUAL CULTURE

Improvision

Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz Simon Shaw-Miller

An interpretation of early visual modernism that examines the birth of abstract art through an understanding of early jazz.

Central to the development of abstract art was the assertion that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music, most effectively understood as Western classical music. Simon Shaw-Miller argues that the musical form that was abstract art’s true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African Americans, but which had a profound impact on European artistic sensibilities. Both art forms share creative techniques of rhythm, groove, gesture and improvisation. This book sets out to theorise affinities and connections between, and across, two seemingly diverse cultural phenomena, offering a truly interdisciplinary study. Simon Shaw-Miller is Chair of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK. He is an Honorary Associate and Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Pop Art and Beyond

Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties Edited by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki

A new perspective on pop art that explores the role of gender, race and class and their intersection in the production, reception and politics of global manifestations of pop in the 60s.

Edited by post-war art scholars Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki, this book features chapters written by acclaimed international experts and emerging scholars who explore the work of over 20 artists. These include practitioners of different cultural, racial and social origins and sexual orientations, including numerous female artists from around the world. By transgressing the borders of individual and national contexts and forsaking Cold War dichotomies and the dominant definition of pop art, Hadler and Minioudaki create a space in which pop can be opened up and a new appreciation of its heterogeneity and politics achieved. Mona Hadler is Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA. Kalliopi Minioudaki is an independent scholar and curator.

Skin Crafts

Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art Julia Skelly

Examines a range of artists who are employing craft materials (primarily fibre and ceramics) in works that address historical and contemporary violence.

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence. This book interrogates ongoing material violence towards women and marginalised others, and demonstrates the power of contemporary art to force viewers and scholars into facing their ethical responsibilities as human beings. Julia Skelly is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Canada.

May 2022 52 mono illus 336 pages 234 x 156mm 9781350203426 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

March 2022 48 colour and 35 mono illus 336 pages 234 x 156mm 9781350197534 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

February 2022 8 colour and 24 mono illus 224 pages 234 x 156mm 9781350122956 Bloomsbury Visual Arts